Happy 30th birthday, World Wide Web!

[thewayne]

Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of CERN releasing the WWW to the public! (Now) Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed the concept of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to make it easier to share information within CERN among their scientists, running on a computer that Steve Jobs helped create after he was kicked out of Apple, The NeXT Step. It was an amazingly powerful computer and included an optical drive - not a CD - for storage!

The NeXT basically became the prototype for the later Mac operating systems when Jobs returned to Apple.

The Register article, though short, has some very good material in it.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/world_wide_web_30th_anniversary/

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/05/02/167232/cern-celebrates-30-years-since-releasing-the-web-to-the-public-domain

And just to be pedantic, the Internet and the World Wide Web are two different things! The internet is a communications network: the hardware and protocols for moving information between hosts (a host is any device that connects to the internet). WWW is the software, such as the web browser that you're using right now, that makes it a heck of a lot more easier for end users to benefit from it.

Comments

[dewline]

For all its flaws, it's something worth celebrating, yes!

[thewayne]

Absolutely.  It's an amazing resource, unfortunately slowly being coopted by corps and paywalls.  Free information will persist, but too much is being locked up.

[disneydream06]

UGH... I am twice as old as the web. :o
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

I knew it would be revolutionary once I got onto the Web, although I still miss the era of the Web that was before it became corporatized and ad-centric.

[thewayne]

In a way, I even miss Geopages. :-)